An important part of the leading comments for a method are the comments for the formal parameters of the method. According to the Java documentation writing guidelines, developers should write a ...

Method overloading in Java seems easy to understand and is common in several languages including C/C++ and C#. Method overloading is particularly effective when parameters are optional.

In the current series of posts I am writing on reducing the number of parameters required to call Java methods and constructors, I have focused so far on approaches that directly affect the ...